Queensrÿche - Take Cover
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Free Music Review: Self Indulgent
Hit: 1 Stars
After listening to Mindcrime 2, I was hoping that there was some life left in Queensryche after all...OOPS! The word terrible still seems like a charitable description of this abomination. Oh, where to begin...let's start with the concept. Some cover songs will work if the cover adds a new spin on the original(Nazareth's cover of Roy Orbison's "Love Hurts" jumps to mind) or if a the old sports a new flashier paint job(Guns'n'Roses was very effective at this back in the day), but these remakes on this album do neither.
1. Welcome to the Machine- It's OK, that is, this is the least irritating cover on the whole album. Heck, it's almost good.
2. Heaven On Their Minds- I don't know the original, but Geoff's voice seems to have a lot of distortion and just sounds bland.
3. Almost Cut My Hair- Some decent guitar work, but by the time you reach this song, Geoff's voice starts to get irritating.
4. For What It's Worth- I never even really cared for the original song, but for some reason both Rush and Queensryche felt that a remake was in order...hippie crap.
5. For The Love Of Money- WTF? There's an episode of "Family Guy" where the Griffin family become rich and a very drunken Brian sings the chorus of this song while urinating on a potted plant...that was more entertaining than listening to this.
6. Innuendo- This could've been good back when Queensryche and Geoff's voice were still in their prime, but this version sounds like a watered down Pat Boone cover, both vocally and musically.
7. Neon Knights- It's OK, but it isn't Black Sabbath.
8. Synchronicity II- Once again, another classic given the Pat Boone treatment. Bland cover.
9. Red Rain- OK, not great...Geoff's voice still annoying.
10. Oddissea- I understand this choice of opera to cover, but once again this might have meant something in the band's prime...Manowar's cover is better.
11. Bullet the Blue Sky- This is the worst song on the album. The case can be made that the second half of the original is just one long rant by Bono, but Geoff's long rant in this version is just incoherent and pointless. A maximum of suckage.
Am I just being hard on Queensryche? Maybe, but after I GAVE this album away, the recipient actually wanted to give it back to me...true story...it's that bad. Well Queensryche, thanks for your first six albums and the great memories, but I can honestly say that I am now finished as a fan and that you've sold your last album to me.
Free Music Review: Oh, how the mighty have fallen...
Hit: 1 Stars
I have been the biggest Queensryche fan in the world, but in recent years the quality of their music has gotten to the point where I really do think they need to quit and stop beating a dead horse. Since their hit album Empire in 1990 they have rapidly and steadily declined as far as the energy and craftsmanship of thier music. Their highly anticipated release after Empire, Promised Land, was, in my opinion, their last feeble effort at creating anything of quality, with scatterings of good song ideas here and there, but none of them ever really reaching either full potential. The following release, Hear in the Now Frontier, was up till that point their weakest release by far. I understand wanting to experiment and get outside the box, but at the same time... you don't just completely abandone the style and sound that people came to love you for... espeacially when you're trying to do a style that is just not your main forte. Thier released between Hear in the Now Frontier and Operation Mindcrime II were a little better, but that's not saying much. You could count on a couple of good songs on the album, but that was about it. Then they outdid themselves with Operation Mindcrime II, which is in my opinion their worst album to date by far. Take cover sufferst from the same problems as Mindcrime II. I hate the production, everything is extremely dry and up front in the mix... God forbit we have any effects or reverb on anything. The songwriting is not exciting to me either, and the main problem I have with Take cover and Mindcrime II, (which really started with another absolutely horrible release, The are of Live), is Geoff Tate's voice. I don't know what happened over the years, but it seems that he simply cannot do what he used to vocally. He was one of my favorite singers back in the day, but now days his voice actually grates on me to where it's just not pleasant to listen to. His pitch control is horrible all over the album, and again, I hate the way the vocals were recorded. Since their live album, Opereation Livecrime, he sounds like he's struggling for every high note he can get. Anyway, in my opinion Queensryche needs to give it up, they are LONG since past their prime, and Take cover is a perfect example of it. If they didn't have the history that they do this effort would be laughed at as being a very amature effort.Free Music Review: For Die Hard Queensryche Fans Only
Hit: 1 Stars
There is now an unfortunate trend of bands way past their prime releasing a collection of cover songs. I suppose the intention is to give their fans something to listen to between official studio releases. Sometimes these ideas work, most of the time they don't. "Take Cover" by Queensryche is one of the ones that doesn't work.
The obvious problem here is that every single song is better than anything Queensryche, a talented band that has lost it's ability to write great songs over the years, has produced since 1990. "Neon Knights", "Welcome To The Machine" and "Synchronicity II" are great songs and are much better in their original form.
One other complaint is that "For What It's Worth", a wonderful song by Buffalo Springfield, has been covered by Rush and Ozzy Osbourne (his version is an abomination) over the last three years. I am sure they know these other artists have covered this song. Why not do something that hasn't been covered yet.
There really is no reason to buy this unless you are a die hard Queensryche fan who must have everything the band releases.
Free Music Review: bad
Hit: 1 Stars
there first album was awesome than they went alternative before alternative was invented operation mindcrime was not metal it was alternative crap!where is the good metal like cannibal corpse?Free Music Review: Don't buy it!
Hit: 1 Stars
This album is horrible! I like every Queensryche album but this one. They put no effort into this album what a ripofff!